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John Evans
John
Evans
Emma Rich
Emma
Rich
Body policies and body pedagogies: every child matters in totally pedagogised schools?
Loughborough University
2014
State
Critical analysis
Policy
Health
Embodiment
Body pedagogies
Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
2014-07-22 09:37:41
Journal contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Body_policies_and_body_pedagogies_every_child_matters_in_totally_pedagogised_schools_/9614186
This paper documents how health is storied into existence by ‘obesity discourse’
to become part of the ‘natural attitude’ towards the health of individuals or
populations. We draw attention to some of the major policy documentation
influencing thinking on ‘health’ and school health education in the UK over recent
years, especially, every child matters (ECM) and subsequent, related measures, for
example the National Healthy Schools Programme (NHSP). We suggest that these
measures have helped shape and make a ‘totally pedagogised society’ and ‘totally
pedagogised schools’ in which ‘health’, reduced to an issue of weight, exercise
and diet, becomes everyone’s concern, everywhere. The analyses highlight the
socio-political and psychological leanings of such policy documentation and its
potential effect on the identities of children and young people when
institutionalised and ‘authorised’ through state policies and the body pedagogies
of schools and multiple other agencies.